A researcher examines the relationship between poverty and crime rates for 100 metropolitan areas and finds a zero-order correlation of 0.37
She controls for the percent of families that are headed by single parents and finds a first order partial correlation of 0.33. Which of the following correctly describes this outcome? This is a relationship.
a. direct
b. statistically significant
c. spurious
d. interactive
ANSWER: a
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